Georgi Milkov from 24 Hours daily, Stoyan Vitanov from Dnevnik daily and the cameraman Emilian Dinov from the Bulgarian National Television have been detained as hostages and have spent the last three days in the village Ostana in Afghanistan. The village is located in the Panchevska valley, north of Kabul. The total number of the journalists detained is 30. Among the detained are journalists from France, Russia, India, Germany, and Japan. The house the hostages are kept in has no electricity and water. Some of them already suffer health problems, the Bulgarian National Radio announced. The journalists have been detained by a local tribe, which refuses to transport them out of Afghanistan. The Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs summoned an urgent meeting. The Chief of the National Intelligence Service, Dimo Gyaurov, is also present. The ministry informed that it had formed an operating staff to undertake the measures needed for taking the Bulgarian journalists out of Afghanistan and transporting them to a safe place.

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